{"id":8611,"date":"2017-10-12T23:49:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T18:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2017-10-12T23:49:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T18:19:25","slug":"blessed-to-touch-this-holy-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2017\/8611\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed to touch this holy soil&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8612\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2017\/10\/17blessed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2017\/10\/17blessed.jpg 600w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2017\/10\/17blessed-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2017\/10\/17blessed-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Led by Mr. Girirajan, a group from Srirengapuram, a village in the district of Theni, Tamil Nadu, have been coming for Amma\u2019s birthday since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He says <em>\u201cEvery year when I come, I am here to fulfill&nbsp;my desire to meet Amma. This year I have brought some of my villagers for Amma\u2019s darshan. I want them to experience the ambiance&nbsp;here. I witnessed a change in my life when I had Amma\u2019s darshan in 2014, at that time I was unemployed. I told her all my problems her and she assured me that I will find solutions very soon. I started agriculture as per Amma\u2019s advice and I am happy that she made me choose the right path\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Raja who is also a farmer from the same village says \u201c<em>Many people might come here to enjoy the festive environment or to go the beach and enjoy their time here. But for me the only motive is to meet Amma, and if I am unable to have Amma\u2019s darshan, I still consider myself fortunate for having touched the holy soil of Amma\u2019s birth\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Anirudh.R., Tony Ajith and Poonthamil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by Mr. Girirajan, a group from Srirengapuram, a village in the district of Theni, Tamil Nadu, have been coming for Amma\u2019s birthday since 2013. He says \u201cEvery year when I come, I am here to fulfill&nbsp;my desire to meet Amma. This year I have brought some of my villagers for Amma\u2019s darshan. I want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[674],"class_list":["post-8611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-darshan","tag-amritavarsham64"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2017\/10\/17blessed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8614,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions\/8614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}